'Chumki isn’t fair, and she doesn’t want to be. She’s never worn a sari, and says she never will. She can’t cook and doesn’t want to learn.' Know more about Chumki in this extract from Stories We Wear. thenodmag.com/content/stor...

Read this excerpt from Pankaj Sekhsaria edited Island on Edge, delving into how tribal lands are getting erased in the #GreatNicobarProject. theprint.in/pageturner/e...

A fantastical crossover! @gautambhatia88.bsky.social will be in conversation with Bora Chung exploring the many worlds of speculative fiction across East and South Asia. You do not want to miss this discussion. Happening online on Jan 10 (Sat). Scan the QR code to register.

We are starting the new year on a high note! Delighted to see Srikar Raghavan’s Rama Bhima Soma and @psemolina3.bsky.social’s Dapaan on Frontline’s best non-fiction books of 2025. Available at all major bookstores and online!

From lived experiences, reportages, family histories and national discourse, here are all the 2025 books that truly represented that the personal is indeed political.

We Are Our Future by business legend Ashok S. Ganguly is now in bookstores and online.

‘The book unfolds as a sustained moral inquiry into the steady erosion of citizenship in contemporary India. Devy writes as both moralist and realist-shaped not only by the legacy of Independence but by the anxieties of a fragile, evolving democracy.’ —Dumani Mail’s review of Citizen Under Siege:

"Pankajam’s enthusiasm for her children’s well-being was tempered by her sense of herself as a patriot who must heed the call to arms of a nation-in-the-making." scroll.in/article/1088... An excerpt by Kalpana Karunakaran @westlandbooks.bsky.social #bookexcerpt

Who is the Indian anti-heroine and where do we find her? Shefalee Vasudev goes on this quest in her essay Bareilly ki Barfi in Stories We Wear. Now available in bookstores and online!

As you go through airports, hurrying to catch your flight for the year-end holidays, take a moment and notice the people who keep the lines moving: the CISF officers. Shefalee Vasudev's 'Airport Look' gives us a sneak peek into their lives. Stories We Wear is now in stores.

"What distinguishes this book is its ability to move fluidly between the personal and the political. " Read this review of Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear. Stories We Wear is now in bookstores and online. share.google/PHkOZSrPvujT...

As the year comes to a close, we are reading Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's poems to find for ourselves a language of love, loss, hope and introspection. Of Least Concern is now in bookstores and online.

Unmechanical in The Hollywood Reporter ! Get your copy of this collector's edition from your favourite bookstore or online. www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/features/col... #Ghatakat100

As #Homebound makes it to the #Oscars2026 shortlist for best international film, we are reading Shefalee Vasudev's essay on the many Indias, from migrants to politicians, that come together on Kartavya Path. Stories We Wear is now in bookstores and online.

Airport looks, politicians dressing in ideologies, learning how Indians fashion their selfhood and much more were discussed at the #Delhi launch of Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear with Shrayana Bhattacharya and Vivek Mansukhani.

A meditation on myth and mirror, fabric and facade, skin and screen, Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear examines the ways in which we dress our identities, conceal (or reveal) our histories and curate our contradictions. A book that perfectly represents the stories India wears. Now in bookstores.

‘Far more exciting than a book about legal ethics has any right to be.’ We are thrilled to see @gautambhatia88.bsky.social’s The Sentence on KJ Charles’s list for Best Books of 2025! kjcharleswriter.com/2025/12/08/b...

Join us as we bookstore hop with Kalpana Karunakaran in #bangalore tomorrow!

‘In design and execution, Be­tween Worlds is one of the more open-minded books you are likely to come across this year.’ Read @locusmag.bsky.social’s review of Between Worlds, the inaugural IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. locusmag.com/review/betwe...

We are the Stories We Wear! Join us for an evening of conversations as we officially launch Shefalee Vasudev s Stories We Wear with Shrayana Bhattacharya and Vivek Mansukhani on 16 December. #Delhi #StoriesWeWear

Tejaswini Apte-Rahm's incredible biography of her grandfather whose story inspired her award-winning novel 'The Secret of More' is coming to bookstores this Wednesday! www.mid-day.com/mumbai-guide...

Open Call! We are now accepting submissions for the second volume of Between Worlds, the IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. Writers of #SpeculativeFiction, please send us your entries! A detailed note and guidelines here: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

If you are in #Mumbai, we have the perfect thing for your weekend! Don't just read the book, experience it in a whole new way with this heritage walk. Register for the Tatyasaheb walk on bit.ly/3KzIItP

Come celebrate with us the centenary of #RitwikGhatak this Saturday at India Habitat Centre! #Ghatakat100

Join us for the launch of Pankaj Sekhsaria edited Island on Edge on Tuesday, 9 December at India International Centre. #GreatNicobarProject #ClimatePolicy

Business biographies have always fascinated us! Biographers Nandini Vijayaraghavan & Tejaswini Apte-Rahm will share with us the stories of business mavericks Rakesh Jhunjhunwala & Tatyasaheb at Business Unusual. Register on bit.ly/WBU2025. Use the code BU50 for special discount! #wbu2025

We had a wonderful time at the Green Lit Fest this weekend with our author Pankaj Sekhsaria and Island on Edge. Here are some snippets!

For all the film buffs in #DelhiNCR, we have the perfect treat for you! Celebrating #Ghatakat100, we have three exciting events in Delhi and Gurgaon. Come join us!

Citizen Under Siege is a deeply anguished response by literary scholar and cultural activist G.N. Devy to the present state of affairs in India. Available at all bookstores and online. Get your copy today.

Join us for the launch of Tatyasaheb - the real life story behind the award-winning fiction The Secret of More. Tejaswini Apte-Rahm in conversation with Vikas Kasliwal and Sathya Saran at Kitab Khana. 5 December, 6 p.m.

The portals are opening again! We will soon be inviting submissions for the second IF anthology of new Indian SFF edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. Stay tuned!

I'm going to speaking with Nileena Sunil about my BFA-winning mythic realist book THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR (@westlandbooks.bsky.social) & related topics at the Manorama Hortus festival in Kochi (November 29, 2:25 PM, Subhash Park). Please do join (and say hello after) if interested and able!

Find out more about the world of the Nicobar group of islands and what truly is at stake in the different essays in Island on Edge (ed. by Pankaj Sekhsaria) Now in bookstores and online. #GreatNicobarProject #ClimateCrisis

Our #Friday reading is Kalpana Karunakaran's biography of her grandmother Pankajam and wondering how our grandmothers fought to make the right to education available to all women.

Attention cinephiles! Join us for the #Ghatakat100 adda at Museo Camera, Gurgaon, on the 4th of Dec with Shamya Dasgupta, Jai Arjun Singh and Sanghamitra Chakraborty! Unmechanical is now in bookstores and online.

We have a treat for Delhi Cinephiles in December! More details coming soon! #Ghatakat100 #Unmechanical

#Tuesday Recommendation! We are reading the brilliant and hard-hitting essays about the #GreatNicobar Project in Island on Edge (ed. by Pankaj Sekhsaria) Get your copy of this important and timely book from your nearest bookstore or online!

The Delhi release of Kalpana Karunakaran's A Woman of No Consequence took us to bookstores across Delhi and ended with a wonderful discussion at Jawahar Bhawan with Apoorvanand, Githa Hariharan and Revati Laul. Get your copy of this heartwarming biography today!

It is pub day for the most awaited Island on Edge (ed. by Pankaj Sekhsaria), asking the important questions about the #GreatNicobarProject. #ClimateCrisis

We loved reading this early review of Shamya Dasgupta edited Unmechanical in India Today ! Unmechanical is now in bookstores and online. #Ghatakat100 www.indiatoday.in/magazine/lei...

Gautam Bhatia (@gautambhatia88.bsky.social) talks to Moneycontrol about the scope of Indian SFF, Between Worlds and plans for the next volume of IF anthology. Read here: www.moneycontrol.com/books/is-the...

Listen to @gautambhatia88.bsky.social talk to @jbhattacharjirose.bsky.social about Between Worlds and the realm of Indian SFF. open.spotify.com/episode/3BHl...

THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR won a British Fantasy Award, a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and was nominated for the Locus Awards. It's also available in South Asia (with a slightly differently spelled title) as a paperback from @westlandbooks.bsky.social:

Join us for the Delhi release of Kalpana Karunakaran's A Woman of No Consequence at Jawahar Bhawan on 21 Nov.

Unmechanical (ed. by Shamya Dasgupta) brings together diverse voices talking about the world and craft of Ritwik Ghatak. Now in bookstores and online #Ghatakat100

If you are in #Chennai, we have the perfect plan for your Sunday afternoon on 16 Nov! Join us for a dramatised reading of Krupa Ge's Burns Boy.

We are all over the moon as Zara Chowdhary's The Lucky Ones wins the First Book Non-Fiction Award at the Mumbai Lit Live!

We had a lovely time at the launch of Kalpana Karunakaran's A Woman of No Consequence in #Chennai. Here are some snippets from the evening!

On #Ghatakat100 centenary day, we are revisiting this quote from the essay by stalwart Nabarun Bhattacharya. Read the full essay in Shamya Dasgupta edited Unmechanical. Now in bookstores and online.

What makes Ghatak's work tick in today's world? The editor of Unmechanical, Shamya Dasgupta breaks it down in Times of India Read more about Ghatak and his life in Unmechanical. Now in bookstores.